INSULA MAIOR The Nature of things; The beauty of Majorca, the end- less variety of its forms and its architectural treasures all continue to this day to be a source of astonishment for visitors to the insula maior. And this astonishment in the face of beauty (the face of harmony, to be precise) is present also in the work of photographer Jörg Bräuer. There is something philosophical in his images. The sea, the coastline, piers and jetties, architecture, the Tramuntana Mountains, the sky: all these motifs are reduced to their essence in photographs taken either at sunrise or sunset with a long exposure. As Bräuer says, ‘Minimalist visual representation facilitates a more highly nuanced perception of form and aesthetics’. Simplicity is what fascinates him; and he succeeds in capturing it in an image, time and again; and this, for him, is perfection.